Knowing Him Daily

17.May.2026

I want to close this series the way the apostle Paul closed his letter to the church at Ephesus, with a prayer, and not just any prayer, but one of the most powerful prayers in all of Scripture. Before I pray it over you I want you to understand what you are about to receive, because I don’t want you to rush past it the way we sometimes rush past John chapter one, missing the weight of what is actually being said.

Paul prays in Ephesians 1:17-23 that God would give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation so that you might know Him better, and that the eyes of your heart would be flooded with light. Not dimly lit or partially illuminated, but flooded. That isn’t a gentle word, it’s an overwhelming, saturating, every dark corner exposed kind of word, and that is exactly what God wants for you. He wants you to see clearly, to understand fully, to walk in the kind of knowledge that changes everything about how you move through your days.

He prays that you would understand the confident hope of God’s calling, for your life. Not a maybe hope, not a wishful thinking hope, but a confident one. You were called. Not by your own merit, not because you earned it or deserved it or had anything to bring to the table, but because of what Jesus sacrificed  His life on your behalf. You are His and that is settled. That is not up for debate and it is not contingent on your performance.

And then Paul prays that you would understand the greatness of His power, and that one little word in there changes everything, and that word is for. For us. Not around us or near us, not reserved for a select group who somehow proved themselves worthy of it, but for us, which means you are not standing on the outside of this looking in, you are not excluded, and there is no version of this prayer that does not include you. This power, this same incomparably great power, is for you.

Now here is where it gets large, and I mean that word literally. Paul goes on to say that this is the same power that raised Jesus Christ from the dead. I want you to think about that because most of us cannot even begin to fathom what it looks like for a human being to come back from the dead. Not resuscitated. Not revived. Raised. From. The. Dead. That is the scale of power we are talking about, and Paul says that power is for you, operating in you, available to you right now in this moment in these last days. Wow. 

This is still Acts. This never stopped. And tomorrow we are going to talk about what that means for you specifically, because you are His body, full and complete, and there is no one higher.

If you have never given your life to the One who holds this power and offers it freely to you, today is the day. Pray this with me:

Dear Heavenly Father,

Thank You for sending Jesus to die on the Cross just for me. I admit that I have sinned, and I repent. I ask You to forgive me. I believe that He died and rose again. Right now, I make Him the Lord of my life. Fill me with Your Holy Spirit. My sins are washed away, my past is forgiven, and my future is bright. Help me to live like the beloved that I already am in Christ. Thank you for saving me.

In Jesus name,

Amen

Make today count and see you tomorrow.